Physical Intelligence - Day 01

On 2nd April 2016, I began a 90 day physical intelligence practice motivated at the time by a promise to my daughter that I would be relatively fit by the day of her wedding, which on that day was about 90 days away.   I was not a great fan of physical exercise and workouts back then and it still has not become a lifestyle choice, but it is a quality of life choice, that much I found out.

Losing nearly 20lbs last year did make a world of difference to my energy and way of being, as well as the way that I thought and how I handled what came my way in the general flow of life.  For the most part of a year I kept below 200lbs and I even dipped below 190lb, but over several weeks I have developed some habits that are not conducive to either health or well being.

So it is that I am going to engage in another 90 days of logging my physical intelligence journey, just as I did last year - but this time it is not a promise to a daughter, but a self-determined decision, knowing that as difficult as the 90 days were last year to sustain, I did manage to keep this commitment.  This time around this exercise being a self-driven choice may be sustainable.

Sustainable basically means that physical intelligence becomes an normal and natural way of life - a lifestyle and not a forced conscription.  As my weight moves back towards 210lbs, or at least at steady 206lbs now, I know from last year what loss of pounds felt like and this year the 90 day goal is to reach 186lb as the marker where I need to fire up my metabolism towards.

Last year I kept one log at LinkedIn called "PHYSICAL INTELLIGENCE"

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/physical-intelligence-cityvp-manjit

This year there will be 90 buzzes filed into the Bronze Learning Hive, but referencing back to day-by-day comparisons.   Those previously formed comments in the original exercise.  Now they will incorporate one comment matched with the year-to-date buzz.  Day 1 comment last year was :

The first thing that went last year was the promise of a personal trainer.  I saw my son begin with me and a few days later I was on my own.  Over the year he was bulked up with muscle, and right now I am bulking up with fat.  So first lesson I learned last year is that I am self-driven but do not respond well to having a personal trainer.  He did introduce me to the Greg Plitt video though :

I actually forgot that video until I read the log from last year and it is amazing how much recall there is by such a video like this and memories of my first day came flooding back, except I was in a much worse shape back then and the irony was that this video was also about 90 days out.

How could this video have had an effect on my long-term psyche when I actually lost memory of this in the passing of a year.  So much for motivational videos.  All I know is that I was mighty relieved last year when I had reached the 90th day and I was the complete opposite of this guy, I just about got myself over the line, with my primary desire being to give up.

This guy is doing all sorts of muscle bound activity, but on Day 1 I am simply walking on a treadmill for 1 hour and that by itself leaves me sweating heavily - and that is the sweat of lack of fitness, not the sweat of a workout video.  What matters is not being critical of motivational video's but engaging in what works.  Doing what works.  And so begins another 90 days.

[ CityVP Manjit - Day 01 - Physical Intelligence 2017 ]

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